Development and application of health outcome descriptors facilitated decision-making in the production of practice guidelines.
Clinical decision-making
Clinical practice guidelines
GRADE
Health outcomes
Health recommendations
Journal
Journal of clinical epidemiology
ISSN: 1878-5921
Titre abrégé: J Clin Epidemiol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8801383
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
10 2021
10 2021
Historique:
received:
11
11
2020
revised:
06
04
2021
accepted:
21
04
2021
pubmed:
17
5
2021
medline:
30
11
2021
entrez:
16
5
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Stakeholders involved in developing recommendations need to have a common understanding of health outcomes and the perspective of affected individuals. In this paper we report on the development and application of health outcome descriptors (HODs) to inform decision-making by panels developing guideline recommendations. Ten American Society of Hematology guideline panels addressing the management of venous thromboembolism developed HODs, rated their importance and health utility, applied them to prioritize outcomes, and to balance potential benefits and harms to formulate recommendations. It was feasible to involve 18 panelists in developing 127 HODs. There was high agreement (82%) across the ten panels about outcomes perceived as critical or important for decision-making. Panelists' utility ratings of the outcomes were strongly correlated with panelists' outcome importance ratings (Pearson's r=-0.88). HODs were incorporated into Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) evidence-to-decision (EtD) frameworks to support a shared understanding of health outcomes in panel deliberations. HODs serve as a valuable tool to promote an explicit, common understanding of health outcomes during clinical guideline development and across different stakeholders. They are helpful across multiple steps of guideline development to facilitate panels' judgements, aiming to avoid variable implicit interpretations of health outcomes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33992716
pii: S0895-4356(21)00139-6
doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.04.016
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Fibrinolytic Agents
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
115-127Informations de copyright
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